Fair warning. This is going to be insufferable. Is there anything in sport more annoying than a fluffed-up alum boasting about his alma mater's football team? Probably not. But the time has come. Anyone here notice BALL STATE IS 11-0?

Just before Vince Dooley, then Georgia's athletics director, offered Mark Richt the head football coaching job after the 2000 season, he spoke with Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. Richt had spent 15 seasons with Bowden's Seminoles, primarily as offensive coordinator.